‘If they hanged my son, I’d hold the rope’ – mother of rapist Martin Abbs begs people to ‘stop punishing her family’ for his horrific crimes

A mother who has disowned her rapist son has begged people to stop punishing her family for his vile crimes.

Monica Abbs, from Cambridge, said if capital punishment was brought back she would be first in line to help execute her son, who committed “horrifying and degrading” revenge rapes on a woman and her 15-year-old daughter.

Martin Abbs was jailed in 2009 for a minimum of six years for the attacks in Littleport, which the judge described as “some of the worst cases of rape” he had seen.

But Mrs Abbs said her family have been “put through hell” ever since, with people physically attacking them and threatening to rape her daughter.

She said: “I have been called ‘mother of a rapist’. I have been hit and verbally abused. It got to the stage where I didn’t leave my house. The whole family has been made to pay for his crimes, but we are nothing to do with him.

“I do not want to know him. If they brought back hanging, I’d hold the rope.” The 56-year-old is the grandmother and guardian of Tiffany, 13, whose biological father is Abbs.

Mrs Abbs, who lives in Queen Edith’s, said Tiffany has never lived with her father, or had much to do with him, but was bullied at her school Netherhall, which has expelled her for bringing a knife into school.

She said Tiffany, who has been without a school for about a month, was called “Jimmy Savile’s daughter” and threatened with sexual violence.

She blames the school in Queen Edith’s Way for not clamping down on the bullying and allowing it to escalate to the point where Tiffany felt she had to bring the carving knife in to protect herself – after she was allegedly told she would be attacked by a gang of men on her way home.

The grandma, who said the knife was never taken out of her bag, admitted that although Tiffany had not always acted “like an angel”, she knows what she did was wrong and has apologised.

She said: “Did that child ask for him to be her biological father? Did she ask for him to do the vile crimes he has done? None of us asked for it, but we have had nothing but hell for it.

“We are basically doing his sentence for him. Tiffany should be able to go about her education like every other child; she should be able to have a normal education, without people saying these horrendous things to her and attacking her.”

She added: “He is in prison for his crime, but he is getting protection, he is getting looked after and fed. We are the ones being put through hell.”

Abbs, formerly of Hazelwood Close, Arbury, was one of three men, who wore disguises including a “Scream” mask, convicted for offences connected with rape and burglary, which were committed in revenge over an alleged theft.

A spokesman for Netherhall School said: “The school has worked closely with the pupil and her family. Regrettably the relationship has broken down. The allegations made by the pupil and her family, as well as those made against her, were fully investigated and appropriate action taken. We will continue to work with Mrs Abbs to support the continued education and well-being of the child concerned.”